Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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In today's world where technology permeates in every nook and corner, it is indispensable for the language teachers to forgo the use of mass media in the classroom. Effective usage of mass media can foster learner's learning experience. Moreover, it also enhances the collaborative learning among learners. Researches have proved that the use of mass media either an auditory form or visual form acts as a stimulus in enhancing the four basic skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a much more exciting and effective manner. Therefore, the present paper attempts to study the efficacy of mass media in teaching English to undergraduate Engineering students in the university. Moreover, the study discusses the possibilities and limitations in exploiting the mass media in the English classroom. © 2020 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Department of English

School of Social Sciences & Languages

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Journal of Critical Reviews

Efficacy of mass media in English language teaching

This empirical research article asserts that the outbound andragogical experiments focusing on the acquisition of soft skills prove to achieve better outcomes as they are exercised in better learning environments. The study reports the findings of the research conducted on the practice of Outbound Training (OBT) in soft skills learning for university level Indian students. With an aim to project the perks of the lateral thinking application of outdoor education in soft skills learning, the study investigated whether the mode of outbound classes comfortably achieves acquiring all the fundamental skills targeted. The participants were 176 undergraduate students and two professors from a university. Both questionnaires and interviews were employed to collect the data. The results revealed that the outdoor training (1) could greatly contribute to the social, physical and academic skill development; (2) could help the learners escape the dullness of routine in-class training; (3) could achieve the key skills through certain types of activities; and (4) could identify its distinctive features. © 2020 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

An empirical study on the lateral thinking application of transforming traditional classroom-based teaching into outbound activities in soft skills learning

World University root node

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Anti Biofilm and Anti Plasmid Activites of Syzygium aromaticum and Kaempheria galanga against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

International Journal of English and Literature

Teaching ‘Technical Report Writing’ Through Task Based Language Learning

This paper discusses the essential role of background knowledge of the text and demonstrates the concept of schema theory, one of the cognitivist learning theories, with regard to teaching of reading to the students. The schema theory is described as a mental structure of preconceived ideas. It really connects the reader to the text and therefore the reading becomes more meaningful. The schema theory influences attention and absorption of new knowledge. Reading requires worldly knowledge, and it leads to the interactive process between the text and the reader's prior background knowledge. So, a heuristic technique is used by the readers to understand the text better. This method enables the reader to discover the meaning by themselves without much effort. Therefore, the paper attempts to inform the readers that the heuristic process in schema theory encourages and enables all the readers to feel more comfortable in perceiving the meaning of the text in the reading process so that it becomes reader-centered reading. © 2017 IUP. All Rights Reserved.

IUP Journal of English Studies

Teaching reading skill using heuristic technique through schema theory

The Language Loss of the Indigenous

The forgotten tribe: The Kuravars of Tamil Nadu

The desideratum of this study is to evaluate the effect of ethnicity, social deprivation, and gender on perceived. Being a Free Women is the disease of women in our time especially for those who attempt to live the kind of life women never lived before. But this is inseparable from the universal theme of the individual's isolation; in a world that supplies no dependable values. The relationship of Elia and Paul at the centre of "The Yellow Note Book" is tinged with women's magazine fantasy. Like many people she is scared of being alone in what she feels and fears emotion in a hostile world, but as an artist, driven to experience as many different things as possible, she has to face the question of responsibility. The Note Books punctuate instalments of a conventional novel entitled "Free Women", in which Anna herself a character, using experience in the Note Books selectively. If literature is analyses after the events and the Note Books are read first and then the novel, we could see how Anna, the unblocked writer of the Free Women is using her fragmented experience recorded in the Note Books compelling it into a positive whole with a control. The African material of the Black Note Book describes some of her most deeply felt experience which soon disappears. At the centre of Free Women is Richard Tommy and Marion Triangle and Anna appears excessively detached. © Serials Publications.

Man in India

The cultural differences and social graces in the select novels of doris lessing

VIT Unitversity

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science

Innovative Methods of Teaching English Language

English from Roots to Fruits